Great Liao Imperial Palace) should be nineteen years, 969 AD.
Shangjing, the Great Liao Imperial Palace.
The dormitory is resplendent and brightly lit.
It was dark at night, but at this time, the night was as bright as day.
On the throne of Jin Luan, a middle-aged man who was snoring like thunder was snoring and was sleeping.
This person is none other than the fourth emperor of the Great Liao Dynasty, Liao Muzong Yelu Jing.
The emperors in Chinese history, roughly calculated, there are about more than 400, and it is difficult for Yelujing to rank first, but in terms of specialness, he is a very beautiful landscape among many emperors.
The emperor reigned for 18 years, neither long nor short, but he did only two things a day for almost half of the time.
One is to drink, and the other is to sleep.
Raise a glass and drink, then snore drunk, wake up and drink again, drink and fall back to sleep.
As a result, this emperor has been awarded two major titles in the long history.
First: The most alcoholic emperor in history.
Second: the most sleeping emperor in history.
And now, the life of this wonderful emperor is coming to an end.
At nightfall. The moon is full and the fog is thick.
Outside the dormitory, several figures were creeping and moving slowly.
They were not generals who planned mutinies, nor were they powerful ministers who plotted against them, on the contrary, they were the most ordinary beings in the entire Great Liao Dynasty.
Three squires, two cooks.
They were unarmed, except for a knife that had become too dull to cut meat.
Tonight, they are going to do an earth-shattering event - killing the king.
Jerry King image).
The emperor, who was drunk all day long, had many reproaches and was very strict with his attendants, and the slightest negligence on the part of these front-line service personnel was beaten and scolded, and tortured at worst.
Even if you work for nothing, you can bear to be cleaned up, but now that your life is going to be lost, the big guys really can't bear it.
They infiltrated the palace and blew out the candles, followed by a very small whisper, followed by the sound of tables and candlesticks tipping and falling, and then the sound of a very violent crash.
Then, there was an extremely shrill shouting of killing, the sound of weapons clashing, and finally a terrible howl.
By the time the candle was re-lit, the Emperor had already been assassinated.
The emperor died, but it did not cause much turmoil in the entire Liao Dynasty.
On the contrary, both the courtiers and the common people breathed a heavy sigh of relief when they heard the news of Yelujing's death.
Three-legged frogs are not easy to find, and there are still a lot of two-legged emperors.
The ministers held a meeting overnight, and after deliberation, it was decided to establish Yelu Nguyen, the son of Emperor Shizong and the nephew and son-in-law of the first emperor Yelu Jing, as the emperor. (Liao Jingzong).
And from this moment on, a new era is about to begin.
Looking at the ancestors of this dynasty, almost all of them who can be called the generations of Ming monarchs have a common characteristic, that is, they are very capable of fighting.
The emperors of the past dynasties have always looked north to the Central Plains, hoping to greatly expand the territory of the Great Liao through their own efforts.
Ambitious emperors who advocated external expansion, although they were essentially thinking about the development of the dynasty, they forgot an extremely important truth, that is:
The vast territory may not represent the strength of the dynasty, and the development of a country is inseparable from perfect systems and policies.
What's the use of being able to conquer a large territory but not being able to defend it?
Prior to this, the Great Liao Dynasty had frequent civil wars, serious internal friction, frequent changes of the throne, and the emperor was diligent on the battlefield, but the political affairs were not repaired, which hindered the development of the Liao Dynasty to a certain extent.
Others don't understand, but Jeluxian understands it very well.
Yeluxian image).
He knew that if he wanted to make the Liao Dynasty a great power, it had to reform.
How to change? Abandon the old Khitan system, follow the Han system of the Central Plains, and establish a complete political system.
We are still nomadic, but we are going to be empires.
And the first step of reform is to reuse Han officials.
We know that the Liao Dynasty was a nomadic regime established by the Khitans.
Those Khitan nobles who relied on seniority or were born in the royal family did not have real talent and learning, but they firmly controlled various important official positions of the Liao Dynasty.
To put it bluntly, it is a sentence, the prince has **, and the poor family is not in the office.
Yes, it's not just the 21st century that people are the most important.
In that distant 10th century, talent was also the foundation of a dynasty.
Are there any talents in these Khitan nobles?
Of course there are, but not much.
If you want to recruit more talents, you must open up the policy so that poor students and Han people have the same opportunity to enter the court as officials.
Khitan nobles) These contents, it seems easy, but it is difficult to do.
The Central Plains regime in the north despised the grassland civilization, believing that the Khitans were indigenous barbarians and were not educated, and the Khitans looked down on the Sinicization system, believing that it was just a bunch of poor and rotten Confucianism.
However, Ye Luxian was able to carry out drastic reforms under such sharp contradictions, reuse a large number of Han officials, and integrate the Sinicization system, which is really a great feat.
Of course, there is no point in bragging, history is studied, not touted.
Those regimes that appeared in the northern steppes, whether it were the Liao, Jin, Western Xia, or the Mongol Empire, had only one way they could become strong, and that was sinicization.
When they were strong, they were all like the Central Plains Dynasty, imitating the Central Plains, building capitals, building palaces, selecting people, formulating laws and systems, developing science and technology, and promoting culture. The list goes on and on.
The "sinicization" here is not to live like the Han people, or to turn oneself into a Han people, but to learn and improve the systematic and systematic systems of the Central Plains regime.
They were born in the grassland, based on the alliance, and regarded themselves as tribes, they have brave warriors, strong war horses, and ** smelting technology far beyond the Central Plains regime, but they have no fixed residence, no discipline and system, not so much that the grassland is their home, but that the grassland is their place of exile.
Khitan culture) And now, Yeluxian has changed all that.
He made the Liao Dynasty perfect and more cohesive, and made this steppe civilization officially become an indestructible and powerful empire.
Reform, repair internal affairs, reform again, repair internal affairs again.
Yeluxian has been working silently for a long time.
The gentleman hides his weapons and waits for the time to move.
Ten years of sharpening a sword, now that the sword has become a sword, it's time to strike!
The smoke of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms has dissipated, and on the northern plains, a new dynasty is waiting for Yeluxian.
This dynasty was the Northern Song Dynasty.
Zhao Guangyi, the second emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty, was a very idealistic person, or rather, he was a very idealistic person.
The emperor believed that the mountains and rivers were thousands of miles long, and the five mountains of Kyushu should have been the land of the Northern Song Dynasty, and the Liao Dynasty forces on the grassland were stubborn and vulnerable, and as long as they moved their fingers, they could be easily annihilated.
Portrait of Zhao Guangyi of Song Taizong).
Song Taizong wanted to fight, not only to clean up the Liao Dynasty, but also to get back the long-lost Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures.
This piece of land in the north of today's Beijing, the north of Shanxi, and the north of Hebei is criss-crossed with ravines and peaks, and it was originally the best barrier given by nature to the Northern Song Dynasty.
But now that this land is in the hands of the Liao people, it is as if they have been choked by the throat.
If the sixteen states of Yanyun are not restored, how can the world be unified?
The emperor said that it must be taken back.
Just do it, Song Taizong personally led 100,000 elite soldiers to attack Liao.
And Ye Luxian, the Liao Jingzong who was far away in Shangjing (the capital of the Liao Dynasty), had been waiting for this day for a long time.
On one side is the Northern Song Dynasty infantry who ended the five dynasties and ten kingdoms, and on the other side is the invincible Khitan cavalry across the grassland.
The big war is about to break out, who will be able to win in the end?
If it is a TV series, or a storytelling, in order to whet the appetite of the audience and friends, the story will end here.
But history tells us straight to the point.
In this battle, the Song army collapsed and the whole army was annihilated, and the 100,000 Song army was beaten by the 50,000 Liao army.
Song Taizong, who was personally in command, saw that the battle situation was unfavorable, so he hurriedly found a donkey cart and fled with the donkey cart.
Because the place where the two armies fought was in the Gaoliang River (now outside Xizhimen, Beijing), therefore, the name of Song Taizong's "Gaoliang River Car God" spread far and wide.
Battle of the Sorghum River).
Before Song Taizong ascended the throne, he did not go through too many wars, and most of the territory of the Northern Song Dynasty was either defeated by Chai Rong of the Later Zhou Shizong, or it was earned back by Zhao Kuangyin, who usurped power and stood on his own, and the role he played has always been the position of the mayor of Kaifeng (the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty).
It is longer than governing the country and the country, and shorter than facing the enemy on the battlefield.
The emperor used his own shortcomings to touch Yeluxian's long road, and failure was inevitable.
After the war, some people rejoiced and some people mourned.
The sad person is the "donkey cart driver" Song Taizong, and the happy person is naturally the Liaojingzong Yeluxian of Wenzhi and martial arts.
This emperor repaired the country's politics internally, resisted strong enemies externally, reformed and forged ahead, and recruited talents from all over the world.
Like all the great emperors of the ages, he was a wise man, but also a talented man.
He not only stabilized the Liao Dynasty after many years of turmoil, but also laid a solid foundation for the overall prosperity of the Great Liao Dynasty during the Yelu Longxu period of the Liao Shengzong.
Gong is better than Wenjing, and he can be Kangxi.
This is my most sincere evaluation of this emperor.
Of course, when we mention Jeluxian, we have to mention a woman's name.
This woman is Xiao Yanyan, the iron-blooded queen who has a unique and legendary history in the history of the Great Liao Dynasty.
Portrait of Xiao Yanyan).
During the 13 years of Emperor Jingzong's reign, this Han empress, as the emperor's most solid right and left hand, also made a significant contribution to the revitalization of the Liao Dynasty.
Qin Se and Ming, Ming Jun Xianhou.
Historically, the legendary imperial couple teamed up to create a myth that can never be replicated in the northern steppes.
In the fourth year of Qianheng, 982 A.D.
According to the Ganzhi chronology, it is the year of Renwu.
In this year, the invincible Holy Roman Emperor Otto II finally suffered in the Battle of Calabria - he was defeated by the Arab army of the Byzantine Empire.
In the Central Plains Dynasty, Zhao Guangyi, who suffered a defeat, was in a good mood, and had just canonized the new king of the vassal state of Goryeo.
And in the northern grasslands, a generation of British lord Liaojingzong Yeluxian finally fell and completed his life journey.
The emperor finally came to a close, and everything changed for a new look.
The old era is about to pass and the new one is coming.
The Northern Song Dynasty, the Great Liao, their real story has just begun.
Go ahead! Don't stop!
Victory belongs to those who persist to the end in the long river of history. **10,000 Fans Incentive Plan